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Author Orsi, Robert A

Title The Madonna of 115th Street : faith and community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 / Robert Anthony Orsi
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1985

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 287 pages) : illustrations
Contents The days and nights of the festa -- Italian Harlem -- The origins of the devotion to mount Carmel in Italian Harlem -- The domus-centered society -- Conflicts in the domus -- Toward an inner history of immigration -- The meanings of the devotion to the Madonna of 115th street -- The theology of the streets
Analysis New York (City). Italian immigrant communities, 1880-1950
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to -- New York (State) -- New York
SUBJECT Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint fast
Subject Italian Americans -- Religious life -- New York (State) -- New York
Italian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
RELIGION -- Holidays -- Christian.
Devotion
Italian Americans -- Religious life
Italian Americans -- Social conditions
Social conditions
Marienverehrung
Religiosität
Geloofsgemeenschappen.
Madonna's.
SUBJECT Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs
New York (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
Subject New York (State) -- New York
New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem
New York- Harlem
Italiener.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585360758
9780585360751